Romans 11:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.

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  • Ps 69:23 : 23 Let their eyes be blind so that they may not see; let their bodies for ever be shaking.
  • Isa 51:23 : 23 And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.
  • Isa 65:12 : 12 Your fate will be the sword, and you will all go down to death: because when my voice came to you, you made no answer; you did not give ear to my word; but you did what was evil in my eyes, desiring what was not pleasing to me.
  • Zech 11:17 : 17 A curse on the foolish keeper who goes away from the flock! the sword will be on his arm and on his right eye: his arm will become quite dry and his eye will be made completely dark.
  • Rom 1:21 : 21 Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.
  • Rom 11:8 : 8 As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.
  • Eph 4:18 : 18 Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;
  • 2 Pet 2:4 : 4 For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged;
  • 2 Pet 2:17 : 17 These are fountains without water, and mists before a driving storm; for whom the eternal night is kept in store.
  • Jude 1:6 : 6 And the angels who did not keep to their kingdom but went out from the place which was theirs, he has put in eternal chains and in dark night till the great day of the judging.
  • Jude 1:13 : 13 Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.
  • Deut 28:64-68 : 64 And the Lord will send you wandering among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other: there you will be servants to other gods, of wood and stone, gods of which you and your fathers had no knowledge. 65 And even among these nations there will be no peace for you, and no rest for your feet: but the Lord will give you there a shaking heart and wasting eyes and weariness of soul: 66 Your very life will be hanging in doubt before you, and day and night will be dark with fears, and nothing in life will be certain: 67 In the morning you will say, If only it was evening! And at evening you will say, If only morning would come! Because of the fear in your hearts and the things which your eyes will see. 68 And the Lord will take you back to Egypt again in ships, by the way of which I said to you, You will never see it again: there you will be offering yourselves as men-servants and women-servants to your haters for a price, and no man will take you.

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  • Rom 11:8-9
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    8 As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.

    9 And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment:

  • Ps 69:22-25
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    22 Let their table before them be for their destruction; let their feasts become a net to take them.

    23 Let their eyes be blind so that they may not see; let their bodies for ever be shaking.

    24 Let your curse come on them; let the heat of your wrath overtake them.

    25 Give their houses to destruction, and let there be no one in their tents.

  • 11 They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

  • 11 So I say, Were their steps made hard in order that they might have a fall? In no way: but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, so that they might be moved to envy.

  • 40 He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.

  • Ps 140:9-10
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    9 As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips.

    10 Let burning flames come down on them: let them be put into the fire, and into deep waters, so that they may not get up again.

  • 6 Let their way be dark and full of danger; let them be troubled by the angel of the Lord.

  • 10 Send them to destruction, O Lord; let their evil designs be the cause of their fall; let them be forced out by all their sins; because they have gone against your authority.

  • 18 They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.

  • 10 Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.

  • 10 Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.

  • 65 You will let their hearts be covered over with your curse on them.

  • 12 So that seeing they may see, and it will not be clear to them; and hearing it, they will not get the sense; for fear that they may be turned again to me and have forgiveness.

  • 2 See, the bows of the evil-doers are bent, they make ready their arrows on the cord, so that they may send them secretly against the upright in heart.

  • Ps 10:10-11
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    10 The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.

    11 He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.

  • 27 Let their punishment be increased; let them not come into your righteousness.

  • Ps 21:11-12
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    11 For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.

    12 Their backs will be turned when you make ready the cords of your bow against their faces.

  • 8 The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.

  • 14 Let those who go after my soul for its destruction have shame and trouble together; let them be turned back and made foolish who take pleasure in my trouble.

  • 3 The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made.

  • Ps 70:2-3
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    2 Let those who go after my soul have shame and trouble; let those who have evil designs against me be turned back and made foolish.

    3 Let those who say Aha, aha! be turned back as a reward of their shame.

  • 22 And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

  • 14 In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

  • 17 Let them be overcome and troubled for ever; let them be put to shame and come to destruction;

  • 4 You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.

  • 25 They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.

  • 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.

  • 14 But their minds were made hard: for to this very day at the reading of the old agreement the same veil is still unlifted; though it is taken away in Christ.

  • 18 Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

  • 16 Who, to make the measure of their sins complete, kept us from giving the word of salvation to the Gentiles: but the wrath of God is about to come on them in the fullest degree.

  • 13 His bones are pipes of brass, his legs are like rods of iron.

  • 5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

  • 15 And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.

  • Ps 129:5-6
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    5 Let all the haters of Zion be shamed and turned back.

    6 Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.

  • 8 Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.

  • 15 Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.

  • 14 The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways.

  • 23 But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.

  • 7 Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.

  • 6 They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

  • 25 Let them not say in their hearts, So we will have it: let them not say, We have put an end to him.